O.K. Wagon Yard


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Marker Number: 4843 
Marker Title: Site of O.K. Wagon Yard 
Index Entry: O.K. Wagon Yard 
Address: Ave R and 24th St. 
City: Snyder 
County: Scurry 
UTM Zone: 14 
UTM Easting: 320298 
UTM Northing: 3621657 
Subject Codes: BN; RD 
Year Marker Erected: 1971 
Designations: na 
Marker Location: Corner R and 24th, Snyder (at post office). 
Marker Size: 18" x 28" 
Repairs Completed: Refinish. 
Marker Text: (Formerly on Jackass Avenue) Stopping place for travelers 
in early 1900s. Rented rooms and horse stalls for two bits (25 c) each. 
Provided blacksmithing and harness repair and kept a horse, Jersey Bull, and a 
"Missouri Jack" (donkey) as stud animals. With right contact here, a cowboy could 
also buy a jar of "White Lightning" (home-brewed whiskey). On Saturdays citizens
 "passed the hat" to finance a rodeo at the yard. In later years "first Mondays"
 were held here, where farmers, ranchers, mule skinners, and the curious met to swap
 or exchange produce, livestock, and other goods. Yard closed in 1930s. (1971)